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McGowan up-beat about mobile phone blackspots fix

Thu 20 Mar 2014, 10:38 AM AEDT

The federal Member for Indi, Cathy McGowan, says she is optimistic several of the electorate's mobile phone blackspots will be fixed with Federal Government funding.

The federal Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has confirmed only a portion of the more than 1,500 blackspots across the country will be fixed with money from the Government's $100 million mobile coverage package.

Areas where life and property are at risk due to poor mobile coverage will get first priority.

Ms McGowan says several areas in her electorate meet that criteria.

"We've got a very high percentage of Indi that doesn't have coverage and it's up the end of our valleys, in particular, that have already been nominated as areas of high priority and the bushfire royal commission also nominated these as high priority areas, so I'm optimistic that we can make a very good case," she said.